this song is so very true (i transcribed it, so forgive me for inaccuracies):<\/p>\n
show me the meaning of being desi<\/p>\n
<\/i>fob:
\ni’m a fob
\njust look at me
\ni love maths
\nor engineering
\nand clothes that match
\ndon’t interest me, baby<\/p>\n
<\/i>abcd:
\na.b.c.d. is who i be
\ni’m from queens
\nor new jersey
\ni talk –(?)–
\nand fight at all the parties<\/p>\n
<\/i>both:
\nshow me the meaning of being desi
\nf.o.b. or a.b.c.d.
\na.d.a., but no we’re not all the same
\nand this is how we play the game<\/p>\n
<\/i>fob:
\nmy g.p.a. is 4.2
\nhow to party
\ni don’t know
\npapa says, “pre-med padho, bete”<\/p>\n
<\/i>abcd:
\ni’m jagdeeps
\nyou can call me petes
\ni don’t speak a single word of punjabi
\ni pretend to understand hindi movies<\/p>\n
<\/i>both:
\nshow me the meaning of being desi
\nwe drink limca or mango lassi
\nyou’re supposed to make our –(?)–
\nour last names have ten syllables<\/p>\n
<\/i>fob:
\nyou know me
\ni’m your t.a.
\nyou newer understand a vord i say
\ni failed englees
\nbut that ok, baby<\/p>\n
<\/i>both:
\nshow me the meaning of being desi
\nafter we eat, our hands are messy
\nwho we are is now becoming clear
\n2\/3rds of us are apes of men<\/p>\n
show me the meaning of being desi
\nf.o.b. or a.b.c.d.
\na.d.a., but no we’re not all the same
\nand this is how we play the game<\/b><\/p>\n
– penn masala<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
this song is so very true (i transcribed it, so forgive me for inaccuracies): show me the meaning of being desi fob: i’m a fob just look at me i love maths or engineering and clothes that match don’t interest me, baby abcd: a.b.c.d. is who i be i’m from queens or new jersey i […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}